Baby Girl Electrocuted In Accident

FORT LAUDERDALE — A 9-month-old girl was electrocuted when she rolled off her bed and fell onto a frayed television cord, police said Sunday.

Carnella Lynette Worthy was found dead at a home in the 500 block of Northwest 23rd Avenue, where she was spending the night with her mother, Charlie Mae Bush, 19, police spokesman Ott Cefkin said.

Bush of the 2600 block of Northwest 16th Street told police she put her daughter on the twin bed at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday. She said the girl was fine when she last checked on her at 1:30 a.m., Cefkin said.

An acquaintance of Bush`s found the girl wedged between the bed and a nightstand at about 8:30 a.m.. She had burns to her right arm and the side of her face, police said.